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An instructor at an outdoor shooting range in Arizona was fatally shot in the head by a 9-year-old girl who was learning to use a firearm, authorities announced Tuesday.

Charles Vacca, an instructor at a shooting range in White Hills, Ariz., showed a 9-year-old girl how to use an Uzi in this still from a video of the fatal lesson on Aug. 26, 2014. (Credit: Mohave County Sheriff's Department)

Charles Vacca, 39, of Lake Havasu City, was airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas after the Monday morning shooting at Last Stop in White Hills, Arizona, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office announced.

Vacca had been teaching a 9-year-old female student, who was at the shooting range with her parents, how to use an automatic Uzi, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was standing next to her when he was struck.

“The girl pulled the trigger on the automatic Uzi, the recoil sent the gun over her head and the victim was shot,” a Sheriff’s Office statement read.

The accident occurred at Last Stop Arizona, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The business is a roadside tourist destination on Highway 93 about 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas (map).

The instructor was working at Bullets and Burgers shooting range, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times, saying that the girl and her family were visiting the range while on vacation.

“This is a rarity for something like this to happen,” the spokeswoman told the newspaper.

Vacca was pronounced dead about 9 p.m. Monday.

An autopsy was set to be performed by the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office in Nevada.

It was not clear what model of Uzi, an Israeli maker of submachine guns, was used in the shooting.